Tangible religion: materiality of domestic cult practices from antiquity to early modern era

Acknowledgements -- Ria Berg – Reima Välimäki – Anu Kaisa Koponen – Antonella Coralini, Introduction: Tangible Religion from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period -- Ancient World -- Meritxell Ferrer, More than Dwellings. Women, Rituals and Homes in Western Sicily (8th–5th Centuries BCE) -- Simona Pe...

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Published in:Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae
Contributors: Berg, Ria (Editor) ; Coralini, Antonella 1965- (Editor) ; Koponen, Anu Kaisa 1965- (Editor) ; Välimäki, Reima (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Roma Institutum Romanum Finlandiae 2021
In: Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae (vol. 49)
Series/Journal:Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae vol. 49
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Roman Empire / Popular piety / Family devotions / Cultic object / Devotional article / History
Further subjects:B Conference program 2014 (Vatican Palace)
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Summary:Acknowledgements -- Ria Berg – Reima Välimäki – Anu Kaisa Koponen – Antonella Coralini, Introduction: Tangible Religion from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period -- Ancient World -- Meritxell Ferrer, More than Dwellings. Women, Rituals and Homes in Western Sicily (8th–5th Centuries BCE) -- Simona Perna, What is in a Vase? Materiality and Semiotics of Cinerary Vases in Egyptian Stone and Vase Shapes in Roman Domestic and Funerary Contexts -- Aude Durand & William Van Andringa, To Live or not to Live. The Lares and the Transfer of the Domicilium in a Roman Town -- Maddalena Bassani, Gods and Cult Objects in Roman Houses. Notes for a Methodological Research -- Ria Berg, Instruments & Amulets. Pompeian Hairpins and Women’s Domestic Ritual -- Antonella Coralini, Materialising Divine Presences. Hercules domesticus Revisited -- Anu Kaisa Koponen, Egyptian Cults in Pompeian Domestic Wall Paintings -- Maddalena Bassani, Sacra privata in Central Italy. New Data from an Archaeological Research -- Medieval & Early Modern Europe -- Claire Renkin, Making the Sacred Palpable. How Material Objects Enhanced Lay Devotional Practices in Late Medieval Europe -- Reima Välimäki, More Powerful than Mere Matter? Forbidden but Practiced Material Religion among the Late Medieval German Waldensians -- Kirsi Majantie, Venerated and Didactic Walls. Devotional Images on Fifteenth- to Sixteenth-Century Tile Stoves in Northern Europe -- David Gaimster, New Faith, New Home, New Stove. The Role of the Hanseatic Ceramic Trade in the Transmission of New Confessional and Political Identities in the Northern European Home, c. 1500–1600 -- List of Contributors
Item Description:This book has its roots in an international workshop of the same name, Tangible Religion, which focused on the material presence, use and meaning of objects relative to cult practises in premodern domestic spaces, in a time frame ranging from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe
ISBN:885491164X